Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Referral Key ---Exchange Business Referral

What Company Is Offering:
Referral Key is an on-line referral management system. It supports your referral marketing activities in one place, with minimal effort and maximum results.

How It Works:

An associates must first "accept" your invitation before you can send them a referral lead. You can determine the status of an invitation by selecting "My Referral Associates". Under each associates name it will indicate their status. If the status is "invited", the associate has not yet accepted your invitation. If the status is "declined" the associate has declined your offer to exchange referrals.

Associates receive a personalized email invitation from you asking them if they would like to accept your invitation to exchange referrals with you. Since many of the people you send invitations to know and trust you, there is a strong likelihood they will accept your invitations. The invitation sends a clear message that you are serious about exchanging referrals with your associate, and that help strengthen and solidify your bond with them. Once a referral associate accepts your invitation to exchange referrals, they are walked through a brief overview and are able to exchange referrals with you in just minutes. When the opportunity arises to refer business, the user simply logs on, includes a brief note about the referral, provides the referrals contact information, and Referral Key takes care of the rest by emailing the contact information of the person being referred and logging the referral in both the sender's and recipient's account. The result is a web-enabled closed loop where you now have a timely, qualified lead from a trusted associate and a much higher probability of converting these leads into actual revenue. Every step, from initiating a referral to following up is automatically tracked with its service.

More at:http://www.referralkey.com/

Find Internet TV is a one-stop-shop for live content

What Company Is Offering:
Find Internet TV is a growing one-stop-shop for locating sites broadcasting video online by providing a feature-rich directory and program Listings for live content. Unlike other sites that search and show video clips on their site, Find Internet TV finds, categorizes, tags, and lists sites that show live and on-demand video. One may be able to find a 2 minute clip of Desperate Housewives or a NFL highlight on a video aggregating website, but they won't know where to watch it live or in full length and miss out on the special features broadcasting sites provide.

The Find Internet TV directory includes sites broadcasting from all over the world, in different languages, and in different time zones. Sites listed in our directory range from large media networks such as ESPN, Discovery, NBC to user-generated video blogs such as Lost in Baghdad, HotRoast, and Wallstrip to niche sites such as CurlTV, VeggieVision, and DrinksTV.

Sites are categorized by country, category, stream type and language. Users can select from these to browse through the index or search by keywords, last added, highest rated, or most viewed.

How It Works:
Users can save their sites to a favorites list, see what other members are watching, rate and comment on sites. Find Internet TV's program Listings and calendar of live events keeps users informed of what's showing online such as concerts and sports tournaments. Users have the ability to jump hour-by-hour through the grid or to specific dates and times. To provide the best end-user experience, the site automatically adjusts all program runtimes to match the viewer's time zone.

Content providers will benefit from the directory and program Listings through increased visibility of their programming. Users that click to view the programming are sent directly to the content provider's Web site and, in many cases, to the video landing page. Content providers who offer live programming can easily maintain their listing by authorized representatives via a backend application.

More at:http://www.findinternettv.com/

Chatzy is a free private chat service

What Company Is Offering:
Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.The purpose of Chatzy is to provide you with private chat rooms in which you can chat with friends and family on the Internet without being disturbed. Nobody can join the chat if they have not been invited by you or one of the other participants.

How It Works:

Go to the front page, enter your name, one or more email addresses to send the invitation to and a subject for the chat. They will then send out an email invitation immediately. You can also send out invitations directly from a chat room by clicking on “invite people” on top of the page and filling out the form that appears.

You can create a chat room and link to it from a Web page of your own. Think of it as a free hosted chat solution for your Web site. You simply use the chat room address from your browser. It should look like this:

http://www.chatzy.com/1234567890 (where 1234567890 is a unique ID number for the chat room)
If you do this, they strongly recommend that you create a Virtual Room. The Quick Chat is primarily intended for private chats with trusted participants. In a Virtual Room, only you or somebody with the administrator password can clear the chat history, and you have the option of specifying a room password for accessing the chatroom.

More at:http://www.chatzy.com/

EasyBib is an automatic bibliography composer

What Company Is Offering:
EasyBib is an automatic bibliography composer. When you have sources you need to cite properly for your research paper, EasyBib will help you format your sources quickly and accurately. Millions of students a month use EasyBib to cite sources for their papers.

EasyBib is a service of ImagineEasy Solutions, a tiny company that makes big products.

More at:http://www.easybib.com/

Transparent Spaces connects people in physical spaces

What Company Is Offering:
Transparent Spaces connects people in physical spaces using data from social networks and other data available.

A conversation is primarily based around a common ground, something you both have in common. What happens when you know the common ground of all the people around you?

Online social networks already show you the common ground of all the people you know. Why not bring it into a physical space?

Transparent Spaces makes the common ground that you share with the ones around you in the same physical space transparent and lets you discover and find new people within this space.

More at:http://www.transparentspaces.org/

Foodista ---FoodWiki

What Company Is Offering:
Foodista allows members of the community to edit 2,000 recipes, add comments to those recipes, upload photos of foods and discover various cooking techniques and tools. This all happens on a wiki where content -- including specific ingredients -- can be added or removed.
Foodista is working with food bloggers and culinary schools to get them engaged with the site. It plans to offer a widget that food bloggers can embed in their sites (inspired by Urbanspoon's Spoonback program), while the culinary students will be encouraged to upload various foods or recipes not already in the system. It also plans to offer a leaderboard where contributors are classified as "dishwashers," "sous chefs" or other titles, while contributors also can track their specific edits and recipe additions on a personal profile page.

More at:http://www.foodista.com/

99designs-- Free Best Possible Design

What Company Is Offering:
99designs is to help you run a “design contest”, where thousands of designers compete to create the best possible design to meet your needs. All you need is a clear idea of what you want designed and how much you're prepared to pay for it.

How It Works:

Step 1: Create Your Design Brief
They will ask you a few simple questions that will form your design brief. A design brief is just a summary of what you need designed. It costs $39 USD to post your brief on 99designs.com.

Step 2: Set Your Budget
They will ask you how much you’re willing to pay the winning designer to purchase their design. This is called the prize. Prize amounts generally range from $50 to $500 depending on the type of design you require.

Step 3: Work with the Designers
Once your design brief has been posted to 99designs.com, designers from around the globe will submit design concepts to compete for your prize. It’s your job to rate the designs and provide feedback to help the designers deliver what you want.

Step 4: Choose Your Favorite Design
At the completion of the design contest (which is a maximum of 7 days) you will choose a winning design and pay the designer the prize amount. The designer will send you their completed design along with copyright to the original art work.

That's all there is to it. Take a look at some of the design contests currently running and see why 99designs is the best choice for your next design project.

More at:http://99designs.com/